Together with European Digital Rights, Access Now, and 16 other civil society organizations, we submitted a second open letter to the European Commission, urging it to urgently reassess Israel’s adequacy status under the GDPR.
Since the Commission reconfirmed Israel’s status in January 2024, the situation has only deteriorated:
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Escalating human rights violations in Gaza and the West Bank
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Expansion of surveillance systems and biometric repression
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Legal reforms undermining oversight of personal data processing
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Ongoing data flows to Israeli companies with ties to security services
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Use of AI-driven targeting systems in a context where the International Court of Justice has found plausible genocide
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Application of Israeli law to occupied territories, in breach of the EU’s own policy
This is not just about technical compliance. It is about whether the EU’s data protection framework can credibly uphold fundamental rights, and whether data originating in the EU is being used to facilitate unlawful practices.
Read the letter here.